http://news.softpedia.com –
Oracle announced a few minutes ago, March 15, that a new stable version (4.2.10) of its VirtualBox virtualization software for end users and enterprises is now available for download.
It looks like VirtualBox 4.2.10 is a minor update, bringing just a handful of fixes and improvements.
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http://www.thevarguy.com –
By definition, all VARs are resellers, but not all resellers are VARs. That realization–which doesn’t always come easily to organizations developing partner programs–is at the core of two new reseller offerings announced this week by cloud virtualization vendor Infinitely Virtual.
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http://serverfault.com –
We have a HP DL380 Server which has ubuntu 12.04 OS as Host and for Virtualization KVM.
Power of our server unplugged suddenly and after plugging power size of image of vm
in
*/var/lib/libvirt/images/image.img*
decreased from 100G to 1G and when vm power up following error occurred:
error: unknown filesystem
grub rescue>
we had critical data on vm so what should we do ?
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http://www.thevarguy.com –
Sure, Red Hat strives to compete with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. But the Linux company realizes it must also show VMware and Hyper-V a little love. A prime example: The new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 release offers an “improved virtual guest experience on VMware and Hyper-V,” Red Hat claims.
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http://www.thevarguy.com –
VMware (NYSE: VMW) has bought Virsto Software, a software developer specializing in storage optimization in virtual environments, a move VMware said will advance its development of storage technologies and fits with its software-defined data center strategy.
Neither company disclosed terms of the agreement, which is expected to close sometime in the first quarter of this year.
Virsto’s technology
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http://www.thevarguy.com –
VMware (NYSE: VMW) veteran chief technology officer (CTO) Steve Herrod, a key driver of the vendor’s virtualization portfolio who joined the company in 2001, has resigned to join the venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners as a managing director.
For VMware, there’s no nice and easy way to say that Herrod’s departure is a serious blow.
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http://www.thevarguy.com –
Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) now generates 65 percent of quarterly bookings from partners, up from 53 percent in the company’s Fiscal Year 2008. That’s impressive. But how is Red Hat going to train partners to cross-sell the company’s growing portfolio of software — Linux, storage, virtualization, middleware, etc.? Oh, and who are Red Hat’s top current partners?
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